NELSONVILLE

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NELSONVILLE , a city of Athens county,

Ohio

OHIO

, U.S.A., on the Hocking river, 62 m. S.E. of

Columbus

. Pop.(189o) 4558,(1900) 5421, including 328

foreign

FOREIGN

-born and 204 negroes; (1910) 6082. Nelsonville is served by the Hocking Valley railway. The city is in one of the most productive coal sections of the state; there are large quantities of clay in the vicinity; and the

principal

PRINCIPAL

industries

INDUSTRIES

are the

mining

MINING

and shipping of coal and the manufacture of

fire

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

-clay products. Nelsonville was settled in 1818 and was incorporated in 1838; it was named in honour of Elisha Nelson, who built the first

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

here.

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